Maple Leaf Rag Flashcards
What is oe of the most venerable styles of music?
Folk music
What American entertainer named his fictional version of an African American Jim Crow?
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
What is another name for folk music?
Vernacular music
What was the problem with songbooks of folk music
They seldom preserved information about the accompaniment to songs and usually negleced instrumental music altogether
What term is often applied to folk music?
Functional
What was one record manufacturing company that issued monthly catalogues of all their recordings and included essays drawings listener’s attention to the fascination of folk-song or new Ballad Records?
Gramophone Company Lttd.
When was Opera invented and where?
In the 17th century at the dawn of the Baroque period in Venice
What was the name for the female lead in an opera?
Prima donna
What is the name for the male lead in an opera?
Prima uomo
What type of operas came from England?
Ballad operas and comic operas
What type of operas came from Germany?
SIngspeil or sung play
What opera’s came from Frannce?
Opera ballets with a heavy emphasis on dancing
What was the term given to large, government licensed theaters in France that had opera plays?
Opera-comique
What was the term given to small comic shows in France after the country loosened its licensing laws?
opera-bouffe
What was the very first opera-bouffe written by Jacques Offenbach?
Orpheus in the Underworld
What happens in Orpheus in the Underworld?
Orpheus goes to the Underworld to rescue his wife Eurydice but Orpheus doesn’t want her back
What was the team of British satirical operettas that had a huge impact on the United States?
William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
What show of Gilbert and Sullivan showed more than50 production in the United States after its 1878 debut?
H.M.S. Pinafore
How did entrepreneurs use various themes to pull in opera audiences?
By using all-Black, all Catholic, all children and so forth casts
What was the problem with American and royalties?
When the international copyright law was passed in 1887 at the Berne Convention the United States was one of fourteen countries not to sign it
How many countries did not sign the International copyright law?
Fourteen
What was the second opera opened by Gilbert and Sullivan in the United States?
The Pirates of penzance
When did the United States see the first ballad operas?
1794
what was the name of shows featuring white players portraying African Americans?
Minstrel shows
What were cakewalk’s originally drawn from?
Plantation era challenge dances in the South
Slaves would walk around trying to mimic their owners and the winner would get a cake what does this describe?
A cakewalk
What states have songs from minstrel shows written by Stephen Foster?
Kentucky and Florida
What is the state song of Kentucky?
My Old Kentucky Home
What is the state song of Florida?
Old Folks at Home
Why could theaters not present purely dramatic performances in England?
Because of British licensing laws
Who supposedly created the why did the chicken cross the road?
A black troupe led by Charles Hicks
What family worked hard to increase the respectability of music hall?
The German Reed family
What were music halls and outgrowth of?
Taverns and pubs
What was the problem with initial music halls?
The middle class did not want to attend because of their lack of respectability
What songs are continued to be sung by Americans that are from the minstrel era?
Oh Susannah, I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Jimmy Crack Corn, Turkey in the Straw, Camptown Races, Dixie
What was a Cockney ethnic portrayal song that mimicked the rhyming slang of Eastern Londoners?
My Old Dutch
Herman’s Hermits in the 1960’s made a number one hit recording by reviving another of what Cockney inspired tune?
Im Henry the Eighth I am
Who was the first theater owner to use the term vaudeville?
John W. Ransome
What theater owner thought the correct term for vaudeville was variety?
Tony Pastor
What did a vaudeville show consist of?
A long series of acts by a diverse array of entertainers
What did theater owners band together in during the vaudeville era?
Cicuits
What were acts known as in the vaudeville era?
Turns
In a vaudeville show what are the lists of turns known as?
As the bill
What two celebrities appeared in vaudeville shows?
Helen Keller and Babe Ruth
What Prohibitionist simulated her destruction of saloons fo the entertainment of vaudeville audiences and then passed out souvenir axes?
Carrie Nation
How was music provided for vaudeville singer?
By resident musicians in each theater
What diid theater musicians keep for particular moods or situations?
Stock music
What would visting singers give to in house musicians?
A cue sheet
What comedy strip was used by Drane and Alexander in the vaudeville era?
Mutt and Jeff
What are some well-known entertainers who gained early experience on the vaudeville stage?
Max Brothers, Mae West, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Judy Garland and the Three Stooges
What was the first vaudeville production team to break a theatrical color barrier in 1883?
Harrigan and Hart
What eventually supplanted the vaudeville tradition?
The advent of film
According to magazine Harper’s Weekly how many “military” bands did the United States have in 1889??
10,000 bands
What band was formed in France during World War One and whoe captain was Pervy. E. Tickler the son of a wealthy manufacturer?
5th lancashire Fusiliers
What African American formed a band to support the 369th infantry regiment during World War One?
James Reese Europe
What were three African Americans other than James Reese Europe to lead African American bands?
Tim Brymm, William H. Tyres and Ford Dabney
Who was arrested for delinquency at age eleven and sent to the Colored Waif’s Home in New Orleans where he joined its band?
Louis Armstrong
How did women participate in bands in the 19th century?
By playing the violin or harp
What was one of the most successful of all women bands?
Helen May Butler’s Ladies Brass Bands
What was Butler’s slogan for her female bands?
Music for the American people by American composers, played by American girls
What branch of the military was Sousa in?
The Marines at age 20
What number conductor of the Marine Band was Sousa?
Ir’s 14th conductor
What was Sousa’s nickname?
The March King
How many military marches did Sousa compose?
More than one hundred composers
What is the usual tempo for marching soldiers in the United States?
120 beats per minute
What was the national march of the United States?
The Stars and Stripes Forever
What was the two-step dance lso known as?
the Washington Post
What was one of the favorite marches of World War One fighting forces?
Colonel Bogey written by Kenneth J Alford in 1914
What was Colonel Bogey the pseudonym for?
Lieutenant Frederic j .Ricketts a British army bandmaster
How would New Orleans march bands play during the funeral procession?
Somberly on the way there and exuberantly on the way back
What were two best known early pieces for concert band by British composer Gustav Holst?
The First Suite in Eb and the Second Suite in F
What was the ery first book printed in the New England colonies?
The Bay Psalm Book
Who wrote new religious tunes that were written as exercises for the schools?
William Billings
What were the first two hymnals that introduced the term gospel in print?
Gospel songs and Gospel hymns and Sacred Songs
Who founded a professional quartet to help market their gospel songbooks in 1910?
The Vaughan Music Publishing Company
What were two popular gospel songs among the troops?
His Eye is on the Sparrow and The Old Rugged Cross
Who reported that on the day of the Lusitania Americans on a New York subway broke out in singing In the Sweet Bye and Bye?
Charles Ives
What was the oldest national anthem?
God Save the King or Queen
what was the national anthem of France adopted in 1795?
La Marseilaise
What did Carlos III of Spain chose as the Royal March in 1770?
An anonymous instrumental tune
What was Joseph Hayden’s 1797 melody that was chosen as Austria’s national anthem?
Kaiserhymne, the Kaiser’s Hymn
What melody was Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner?
To Anacreon in Heav’n
What did many people prefer as america’s national anthem?
America (My country, tis of thee)
What did the National Song Society endorse as the National Song of the United States?
A New National Anthem
What was the second song endorsed by National Song Society?
My Own United States
Why was a man shot in the back three times in 1919 to applause of the audience?
Because he failed to stand up while the Star-Spangled Banner was playing
When did Congress approve the Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem?
1931
What was the songbook for the international Workers of the World?
The Little Red Songbook
What was The Little Red Songbook originally titled?
Songs of the Workers on the Road, in the Jungles and in the Shops-Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
What were union members of the IWW known as?
Wobblies
The Wobblies adapted what song for their movement?
We’ll Overcome omeday
What was the anthem for African Americans lobbying for Civil Rights?
We Shall Overcome
Catharina van Rennes wrote a large scale choral choral work that she conducted herself in 1908 at what event?
The opening of the Fourth International Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
What was the rousing final of Dam Ethyl Smyth’s Song of Sunrise?
The March of the Women
What was the anthem for suffragettes in Great Britain?
The March of the Women
What happened to Smyth while in prison?
She conducted her inmates in March of the Women while she conducted them with a toothbrush
What was the nickname for the 1890’s?
The gay 90’s
What was the first ragtime piece shown at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893?
Jesse Pickett’s The Dream
The style called ragtime incorporates traits from?
Brrass band marches and dances, Euorepan piano music and Lati, Africa and South American elements
What is the steady pulse usually maintained in ragtime music?
Eight or quarter note
Who was the first black composer to publish a rag?
Tom Turpin
What piece of Scott Joplin’s was dedicated to Turpin?
The Rosebud March
Who gave Joplin lessons at the age of eleven?
An old German musician
Where did Joplin study music in college?
George R. Smith College in Sedalia
Who became a friend of Joplin while at Sedalia and published about a third of Joplin’s work?
John Stark
What was Scott Joplin’s first rag published in 1899?
Oriental Rag
What was Joplin’s royalty payment per copy of Maple Leaf Rag?
One penny per copy
How many copies of Maple Leaf Rag were sold during its first year?
400
How was a piano roll created?
A pianist would play a keyboard punching machine that would creat perforations in a long scroll of paper
When did Joplin die?
1917
When did Joplin piano roll record Maple Leaf Rag?
1916
Why was Joplin beginning to loose his fine motor ability by 1916?
Because of syphilis that would take his life in 1917
What tren for rag time did Joplin hate?
The trend of playing it faster and faster
What is the form followed by Maple Leaf Rag?
AABBACCDD
What is an example of Maple Leaf Rag’s descent from march ancestry?
A beautiful series of upward sweeps through non-syncopated notes. The steady left-hand pulsation stops, making the texture briefly monophonic
Up to the 19th century what dance was popular in couple dancing?
the waltz
What was a new fad for individual dances?
Animal dances
What were two repopularized couple dances in the 1920’s that caused great consternation among conservatives?
The foxtrot and the tango
What pope declared that the tango was an immoral dance and prohibited to all Catholics?
Pope Benedict SV
What was the Poor Butterfly?
A foxtrot version that was composed by Raymond Hubble and presented in a 1916 Broadway production called The Big Show which reflected an awareness of the Great War raging across the Atlantic
What was Madama Buttefly?
A opera by Puccini in 1904 when a Japanese geisha waits in vain for her American lover to reclaim her
What is swing?
A performance style that lengthens the first note in a pair, subtracting a corresponding amount of time from the second note’s value
Who is the Father of stride Ppiano?
James P. Johnson
What was James Johnson’s best known tune?
The Charleston
What French composer concluded his piano suite Children’s Corner with Golliwogs Cakewalk?
Claude Debussy
What did Golliwogs Cakewalk in Children’s Corner make use of?
ragtime rhythms
What composer’s pieece was made fun of by Children’s Corner with Golliwogs Cakewalk?
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Who wrote A Soldier’s Tale?
Igor Stravinky
WHat is A Soldier’s Talke about?
A magical violin, a soldier, the devil who wants the soldier’s soul and an enchanted princess. The soldier must perform a trio of dances, the tango, the waltz and a ragtime to restore the princess’s health
What work did Stravinsky complete in 1918?
Ragtime for Eleven Instruments
On the back of what work did Stravinsky write Day of Deliverance. The Germans have surrendered?
Ragtime for Eleven instruments
